Vtrans2040 Multimodal Transportation Plan Corridors of Statewide Significance Needs Assessment Southside Corridor (J)
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VTrans2040 Multimodal Transportation Plan Corridors of Statewide Significance Needs Assessment Southside Corridor (J) ¤£58 VTrans2040 | Southside Corridor (J) | Page 1 Table of Contents I. Corridor Overview 3 Demographics and Economic Trends 5 Corridor Travel Patterns 7 II. Segment J1 8 III. Segment J2 21 IV. Segment J3 34 J1 Segment Profile 9 J2 Segment Profile 22 J3 Segment Profile 35 Travel Demand 10 Travel Demand 23 Travel Demand 36 Traffic Conditions 12 Traffic Conditions 25 Traffic Conditions 38 J1 Segment Needs J2 Segment Needs J3 Segment Needs Redundancy and Mode Choice 15 Redundancy and Mode Choice 28 Redundancy and Mode Choice 41 Safety Metric 16 Safety Metric 29 Safety Metric 42 Congestion Metric 17 Congestion Metric 30 Congestion Metric 43 Reliability Metric 18 Reliability Metric 31 Reliability Metric 44 Summary of Needs 19 Summary of Needs 32 Summary of Needs 45 47 See Corridors of Statewide Significance, Needs Assessment: Executive Summary and Methodology Report for details on the overall assessment approach, data sources, and performance measures used throughout this report. VTrans2040 | Southside Corridor (J) | Page 2 I. Corridor Overview Corridors of Statewide Significance (color varies by segment) A Coastal Corridor (US 17) B Crescent Corridor (I-81) C East-West Corridor (I-64) D Eastern Shore Corridor (US 13) E Heartland Corridor (US 460) (grey denotes not a commercial service airport) F North Carolina to West Virginia Corridor (US 220) G North-South Corridor (Route 234) H Northern Virginia Corridor (I-66) I Seminole Corridor (US 29) J Southside Corridor (US 58) K Washington to North Carolina Corridor (I-95) L Western Mountain Corridor (I-77) The Southside Corridor (Corridor J) is defined primarily by US 58, which Passenger travel along the Southside Corridor is accomplished primarily via The Southside Corridor does not directly access the Port of Virginia, but runs east to west for more than 500 miles, mostly in southern Virginia. US the highway facilities. Other travel options include: it provides indirect access to the three port facilities via US 13. There are 58 acts as the major corridor for this part of the state, and it connects with • Transit service, available in the Hampton Roads Area; multiple rail lines along the Southside Corridor, although none run throughout and provides connections to all of the major north-south corridors in the the entire length of the corridor. CSX operates a spur of its National Gateway • Numerous Park-and-Ride facilities, present in the Hampton Roads Commonwealth, including I-81, I-85, I-95, and US 29. Within the Hampton Corridor from Weldon, North Carolina, just south of the Virginia border, to Area, including Suffolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, and Virginia Beach. Roads Area, many other major facilities can be accessed directly from US 58. the Hampton Roads Area to connect with the Port of Virginia facilities in In addition, many Park-and-Ride facilities are available in the western US 58 shifts between two-lane and multi-lane sections and travels through 14 that area. This corridor is CSX’s primary freight corridor connecting the Port part of the state directly along the Southside Corridor, in Lee and Scott counties west of the Hampton Roads Area. of Virginia with national markets. Norfolk Southern provides rail lines along Counties, and along US 58 Alternate in the western part of Virginia; the Southside Corridor from Brunswick County east to the Hampton Roads There are no true parallel facilities to US 58, although the highway accesses • Three Greyhound bus stations, which operate in the Hampton Roads Area and the Port of Virginia facilities located there. Norfolk Southern also other major corridors and many other major routes run concurrently for Area, with one each in Norfolk, Hampton, and Virginia Beach, as well as operates rail lines within the Southside Corridor and near US 58 Alternate stretches. US 58 Business and US 58 Bypass spurs exist through several of in Danville, South Boston, South Hill, and Emporia; in the western part of the state as part of its Heartland Corridor and Coal the urbanized areas in the corridor, including Martinsville, Danville, Emporia, • Amtrak passenger rail, which can be accessed in Danville and Norfolk; Corridor. The Southside Corridor also crosses multiple north-south freight Franklin, and Suffolk. US 58 Alternate runs parallel to US 58 in the far western and rail corridors, including the main line of the National Gateway Corridor near portions of the state, west of Bristol. US 58 runs concurrently with other CoSS Emporia, the Norfolk Southern Crescent Corridor, and the Norfolk Southern facilities for short stretches including I-77 (Corridor L), US 29 (Corridor I), US • Fifteen airports, including two reliever facilities with commercial service Coal Corridor. 220 (Corridor F), and US 460 (Corridor E). in the Hampton Roads Area. In addition, US 58 provides indirect access to the two commercial-service airports in the area, Norfolk International and Newport News-Williamsburg Airports. VTrans2040 | Southside Corridor (J) | Page 3 Corridor Components Highway Facilities Primary Facility • US 58 Other Highway • US 58 Business Facilities • US 58 Alt • US 58 Bypass Transit Services • Intercity bus service Rail Facilities • CSX National Gateway Corridor Port Facilities • Norfolk International Terminal • Portsmouth Marine Terminal • Virginia Internaitonal Gateway Airport Facilities • Norfolk International Airport • Newport News/ Williamsburg International Airport VTrans2040 | Southside Corridor (J) | Page 4 CORRIDOR J OVERVIEW Demographics and Economic Trends The primary population centers with greater than 500 persons per square mile along Corridor J are found in the cities along US 58 including the Cities of 2012 Population Bristol, Galax, Martinsville, Danville, Emporia, and Franklin. In addition, several larger cities in the Hampton Roads Area have high population densities, Density (Persons / including Chesapeake, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach. Scott, Grayson, Patrick, Square Mile) Halifax, Mecklenburg, Brunswick, Greenville, and Southampton Counties have the lowest density along the corridor, with less than 50 persons per square mile. The most densely-populated segment along the corridor is Segment J3 in the Hampton Roads Area. Between 2012 and 2025, the City of Suffolk, in the Hampton Roads Area, is predicted to have the largest population growth (greater than 25 percent) among jurisdictions along the corridor. The Cities of Chesapeake, Emporia, and Galax are anticipated to have population growth between 11 and 25 percent. Overall, other than the Hampton Roads Area, population along the corridor is not expected to grow significantly, with populations decreasing in a few counties and in the City of Virginia Beach. Current employment centers follow a pattern similar to the population centers, with employment highly concentrated in the cities along the corridor. The highest employment growth (11 to 25 percent) is anticipated in the Hampton Roads Area, the City of Emporia, and in Lee, Grayson, and Floyd Counties. Corridor J passes through four Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) Population Growth areas along its route, each with a different size and focus for its local economy. The Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) Area has (2012 - 2025 the highest GDP of any of the MPO areas in the corridor. The largest industry Percent Change) sectors in the corridor are health care, retail trade, and wholesale trade. VTrans2040 | Southside Corridor (J) | Page 5 CORRIDOR J OVERVIEW Top Industries (GDP) Hampton Roads Area Kingsport Area 2012 Employment Density Jobs / Square Mile Danville Area Bristol Area Employment Growth (2012 - 2025 Percent Change) VTrans2040 | Southside Corridor (J) | Page 6 CORRIDOR J OVERVIEW Corridor Travel Patterns Passenger Freight Corridor J provides connections to Tennessee and Kentucky in the far By truck, Corridor J carried 92 million tons of freight worth $147 billion in southwestern corner of the state and passes through four MPO Areas - 2012, and is estimated to carry 125 million tons of freight worth $226 billion Distribution of Internal and External Travel Kingsport, Bristol, Danville, and Hampton Roads - en route to its terminus on in 2025. On Corridor J, 45 percent of the truck freight tonnage, and 60 percent the Atlantic coast in Virginia Beach. In the Kingsport and Bristol Areas, traffic of the truck freight value, passes through Virginia. The major truck freight along Corridor J is dominated by through traffic with more than 60 percent interstate through patterns are similar to those observed on Corridor B as a of the traffic in each region having neither its origin nor its destination in the result of a concurrency between US 58 (Segment J1) and I-81 (Segment B1). region. In the Danville Area, the proportion of local and through traffic is more In terms of tonnage, the largest truck freight flows on Corridor J are between evenly divided; 30 percent of traffic is through travel, 22 percent is local traffic North Carolina and the Hampton Roads Area, accounting for more than eight within the Danville area, and the remainder of traffic within the corridor has percent of the total truck freight tonnage on the corridor. North Carolina and only one trip end in the area. In the Hampton Roads Area, the vast majority Tennessee are the largest generators and attractors of truck freight tonnage of traffic along Corridor J (over 80 percent) is local, internal to the Hampton on Corridor J, with 29 percent of the truck freight tonnage originating in these Roads Area. locations and 22 percent destined for these locations. Kingsport Area Bristol Area By rail, Corridor J carried 34 million tons of freight worth $26 billion in 2012, and is estimated to carry 36 million tons of freight worth $32 billion in 2025. On Corridor J, the majority of rail freight either originates from or is destined for Virginia, with only four percent of the rail freight tonnage and two percent of the total rail freight value passing through the Commonwealth.